MARK TWAIN

liamcnt," after the style of the ancient Potsdam one, till
midnight, when the Emperor shook hands and left.1

Feb. 26. Day before yesterday the Emperor made a
speech (as Markgraf of Brandenburg) to the little Bran-
denburg Parliament, assembled here, at a banquet in the
Palace. Complained sharply of the grumblers who are
dissatisfied with the government and suggested that if
they don't like the way things are they had better shake
the Ciorman sand out of their slippers and leave.

The speech has made a great stir. That of the odious
(proposed) Sdiultfescr/., and the lack of bread and work
resulted in a rnob gathering in front of the Palace yes-
terday, of people out of work. They uttered revolutionary
cries. Baker's bread was distributed to them but they
threw it away.

At Jean's school this morning the children were for-
bidden to speak of the matter but said they would tell
her wut of school.

Crowds of the proletariat drifting up and down the
"Holy Land" today but the Emperor rode out as usual,
and after him I saw the whole force of royal carriages fol-
lowing—apparently all the royal women and all the chil-
dren have turned out to show that they are not afraid.

He was still far from well, and was commanded
by his doctor either to remain in his room or go
to a warmer climate. He chose the latter and
with Mrs. Clemens went to Mentone, in the south
of France, then to Italy.

Pisa, March 25 & 26. Echo in Baptistery is the noblest
and sweetest and richest and most resonant and long-
sustained musical strain in the world. It is nearest like a
chord of flutes, perhaps, or one of those orchestral com-
binations in Wagner with silver horns in it—'but nothing

1 For a fuller account of what happened at this dinner see Mark
Twain—a Biograp/ty, Chapter CLXXIX.

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